The Portland daily press., 1887-11-16
STARTLED BY AN EXPLOSION.
Employees of the Iowa Iron Works
Narrowly Escape Destruction
BY the Bursting Of a Dynamite Bomb
Thrown Into the Building.
No Clue to the Identity of the Bomb
Thrower.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, Nov. ia bomb ex-
ploded in the Iowa Iron Works late last
night. The works were running a night
force. Some 20 workmen, employed on a
large boiler in the boiler shop, were startled
by terrific explosion about 10 to 20 feet
away on the other side of the boiler. The
bomb was made of inch and one-half gas
pipe, and was about two feet long. One end
was still intact 1t was plugged up with a
cap, while hole was made in the pipe near
it for the fuse. The pipe was split in several
places. Fortunately the explosion was all in
one direction, and away from the men. The
flooring in parts of the building was set on
fire, but the flames were speedily extinguish-
ed. No other damage was done. 1t was a
miracle that great loss of life was not
caused. 1t is supposed the bomb was thrown
in through an open window. The works
have had no trouble with their men, but
have been running double force for nine
months. The theory is that the bomb was
prepared by some one having a grudge
against the workmen, or else by an out-and-
out Anarchist. 1t was filled with either dy-
Mantle or gun cotton.
Louis LIngg.
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-One of the Jail ofic-
ials. in talking about Lingg today, said there
were. many things about the dead Anarchist
known only to himself and Captain
Setback.
Lingg's mother, he said, is a dressmaker
In Mannheim, Germany, where he was born.
and is now quite well to do She wrote her
son long letter just after his conviction, in
which she wrote him to die bravely.
"All of us about the JAIL" continued he,
were aware that the man set no value upon
his life. He cared not the snap of his finger
for it. Spies said he could not understand
Lingg. and Schwab said he was a puzzle.
The others looked upon him as an odd COM
pound Of hardihood, unquestioned physical
courage, but mentally so odd that they never
knew how to take him. He was the slave of
contradictory impulses"
DR.. Gray said: "His mind was undoubted-
ly defective. but yet he was legally response
BILE for his acts. 1t would take more of a
brain expert than profess to be to explain
the cause that operated to make Lingg the
intellectual oddity that mystifed his closest
friends, but the story of his birth and early
llie VIII go a long way toward clearing up
the secret
"Lingg's father was a nobleman; his
mother come from the humber classes, de-
pendents, who lived on the estate of this no.
bleman's father.
'Lipgg hated his father with a ferocity
that was something terrible. he hated the
class to which his father belonged-he hated
and despised the ruling class. He hated the
rich. Some of the qualities belonging to his
father also helped to make Lingg the strange
man ma, ne was. He had quick intelligence, and
though his educational opportunities were
limited, he was fairly well read and fluent
and convincing talker in German.
:. He aspired to work change in the con-
dlrlon of things which oppressed the work
lug class and to afford the poor larger meas
nre of contentment. l have an idea that
this part OF his character came from his
father Then associate that with a spirit of
lmpatlence. sense of wrong and injustice,
1eellng OF hatred for those in authority, and
you see what mixed character you have"
Won MoItke's Opinion.
A cable special says Count Won Moltke,
having been asked for his opinion on the ex-
ecution of the Anarchists at Chicago, gave
the following reply:
The abolition or the application of capital pun
gress OF civilization. upon civilization itself the
case IN Chicago can have no influence.
(signed), COUNT Won MoLTKE.
Hanged to a Lamp Post.
TOLEDO, o., Nov. 15.-August Schmidt,
German employe in the Bolt and Nut Works,
was extolling Spies and other Anarchists
before his fellow workmen today, when they
became enraged and procuring rope put it
around his neck sand strung him up to a
lamp post. He struggled but could not get
away. When they let him down he shout ed
"Hoch die Anarchie.'
This further enraged the crowd which
again pulled him up and held him until he
grew black in the face. He was then let
down and resuscitated.
Schmidt had no sooner recovered than he
repeated bis Anarchistic utterances, when
the crowd forced him into cask and rolled
him down steep embankment. His collar
bone was dislocated in the struggle and he
was otherwise injured. He was taken from
the cask and put into astool chest, where he
would have died but for the interference of
his friends.
1t has just been learned that there is
strong organization of Anarchists in this
city who are heartily in sympathy with the
chicago rioters Today a German circular
was distributed announcing that Paul Gett-
kann will address the laboring men of To.
ledo on the principles of Socialism and say
something about murder by the "capitalistic
press" OF four men at Chicago, by its false
reports"
Anarchists Of New York.
NEW YORK. Nov. 15.-Rev H. C. Heyser,
OF the East New York German Evangelical
church, has resigned, owing to the fact, as
he alleges, that some of the members of his
church are Anarchists and Socialists.
Herr Most, alarmed at the reports that he
Is to be arrested for his bloodthirsty talk of
Saturday night, has announced that the re-
port OF his speech was wholly false, and
that he did not say the things attributed to
him in the Sunday papers.